Windows Start Menu Links

Ignition
1

It appears that when you run an Ignition project in Windows, you get an icon in the Start Menu and listed in the “Add/Remove Software” list. Two questions:

  1. Is there any way to control/customize where exactly the start menu item is located? Instead of having a folder with the project name & an icon with the project name, is there a way to have it show up in “Ignition/Project Name” or something like that?

  2. Also, how do you remove old projects? If I try to remove them from the “Add/Remove Software” nothing happens. So I end up with a lot of old/inactive projects littering my software list with no way to remove them.

Thanks!

2

I actually just noticed that you can remove the programs through the Java Control Panel, but still how do you customize where they show up when installed?

3

All of that is handled by Java. I don’t think you have much control over that. It puts a shortcut on your desktop and in your program folders.

4

I know there’s a ‘Shortcut Creation’ option in the Java Control Panel’s ‘Advanced’ tab, not sure if it’ll help …

5

It would be really nice to have a custom Start Menu folder. Shouldn’t be so hard to implement as Ignition already sets some Java WebStart properties, like icon or vendor name. Currently i see the following in the jnlp:

    <icon href="system/images/test_logo.png"/>
    <shortcut online="true">
      <desktop/>
      <menu/>
    </shortcut>

Maybe we can have an additional setting in the java web start properties for the menu subfolder:

    <shortcut online="true">
      <desktop/>
      <menu submenu="PutSubfolderNameHere"/>
    </shortcut>

As a little drawback this may cause Java WebStart to ask for a confirmation when default settings are used.

6

Thanks guys,

Its not a huge deal, but I can use all the help I can get to stay organized.

I do like Chi’s suggestion. Even if its not customizable, it’d be nice to have them grouped together in some way. Although customizable is always better… :slight_smile: